Posted 15 September 2008 - 11:02 PM

Did someone already try BIOS update 1.06? Could it cause trouble with OSX?

Ive done up 2 identical (w/ the exception of wireless cards) : 1 wind with bios .105 and a newer 1 with .106... my first wind .105 doesnt need switchrex to boot consistantly 1024 x 600 but the newer bios .106 the machine would occasionally boot in 800 x 600 with no 1024 x 600 listed in displays hence the need for switchresx. That is the only difference I can see.

By the way on the newer one I used Dell PN#430-2547 the dell 1510 wireless N mini pci-e card and it works flawlessly post installation of MSIWINDOSX86.iso. The first one I just tore the G card out of an HP NX6325 which also worked flawlessly post install of MSIWINDOSX86.iso.

The only thing I cant figure out so far is why the screensaver wont kick in at the appointed time? It works with Wallsaver running in the background and also works if you enable Hot Corners to be the screensaver... curious... ?

Posted 17 September 2008 - 07:59 AM

FavleX

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The only thing I cant figure out so far is why the screensaver wont kick in at the appointed time? It works with Wallsaver running in the background and also works if you enable Hot Corners to be the screensaver... curious... ?

For working regularly u must try to log out and login again , then it should starts at right time.It's a well known prob on variuos osx86 installation.

Posted 18 September 2008 - 08:02 PM

I started to look into these. I want a nice laptop, nothing super powerful. It looks great this wind laptop, but I worry about:

Headphones not working
No firewire.

I want to use it for internet, email, instant messaging, office stuff, picture editing ( jpg's from cameras, no raw stuff), audio editing (small stuff), and capture SMALL video. I had a ibook 1.33 G4 and it was fine, but chugged in some things. I don't want to do much, my pc does the video editing and I plan to go imac next year. Is this a solution for me?

Posted 21 September 2008 - 01:19 PM

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Hi, I bought the Wind PC and I start to read this thread. So I decide to get msiwindosx86.iso
After a try or two I install it in dual boot and everything went right.
But....I have a problem with the ethernet card. It's installed because in the network tab it's present, but if I plug the lan cable (fully functionally under windows), nothing appens and it says "no cable connect"

Posted 23 September 2008 - 09:12 PM

Bluetooth headphones work great. The wind does not come with a FireWire port, but does have three USB 2.0 ports. No idea about addon cards though I highly doubt it.

There aren't any Firewire cards that will work on the Wind, unfortunately. Although maybe someone will find a Mini-PCIe and mod it...haha. But, the rez is way too small to edit vids...just look at Photobooth, you can't even fit it all on the screen because of the weird 1024x600 resolution.

Syba has an $8 USB adapter on Newegg that works perfectly with the Wind. It's the size of the thumb drive, I just keep it in my earbud pouch when I take it with me.

It would be very interesting to see if it gets the built in card to work.

Could someone try it?

/Klaus

I read a few forums where some people reportedly got their native wireless card to work.The problem with these solutions (read drivers) is that you need to run a third party application to get the driver to work.

This is kind of sad... plus dell a 1490 is only a few $$$.

There is nothing better than native support ;-)

Hi, I bought the Wind PC and I start to read this thread. So I decide to get msiwindosx86.isoAfter a try or two I install it in dual boot and everything went right.But....I have a problem with the ethernet card. It's installed because in the network tab it's present, but if I plug the lan cable (fully functionally under windows), nothing appens and it says "no cable connect"

I am a newbie in this forum. I am a student in a small country.I have an MSI Wind installed with MSIWindOSX distro and it worked fine. The drawbacks are... I can not use Wifi (I don't want to swap my wifi card since it will void my warranty), and can not use OSX for my presentations because it can not support mirroring (how i would love to use it to dazzle my teachers with Keynote presentation ), so i still dual boot with Winblows. The other drawbacks, i mean no sound from earphone & microphone, is not particularly an issue for me.

Can you give me directions (preferably links... ) to upgrade my MSIWindOSX distro to Leo 10.5.5 so I can use my Wind for my presentations? Or should I do a clean install from the start with Kalyway 10.5.2?